What You Will Learn
Strategies
You will be using many reading and writing strategies to complete this lesson. The key strategies that you will focus on are:
- Constructing summaries
- Determining important information
- Making inferences
- Comparing and contrasting ideas
Goals
Here are the big ideas you will learn about in this lesson:
- The ancient Maya created a complex system of writing to guide their daily lives and record their history
- The Spanish conquered the ancient Mayan civilization and destroyed most of the writings of the Maya
- Archeologists have discovered artifacts with Mayan writing that have taught them about this ancient civilization.
Vocabulary
Read these words and their definitions. When you see them, you may click on them to read the definition again.
